RACC Resources
This page features original work created by RACC graduates when they were students. Some have continued to create as alumni, and their work can be found below and at their personal websites (click on their photo).
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ALUMNI WORK
EMILY HABECK (MTS '21, MEd '21)
The creative freedom and support I received from the RACC faculty and students helped me realize my artistic life on the plane of vocation. If I can help at least one person through my work—and maybe that person is myself—that is enough.
COURTNEY ARIEL BOWDEN (MDIV '22)
Courtney Ariel is a songwriter, writer, and storyteller. Her music can be found on most streaming platforms. She has written articles that appear on Sojourners, CNN, The Tennessean, and Harper's Bazaar. She is committed to working collectively toward the healing of Black people through the healing of relationships.
She is from Southern California. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Georgia, after years spent living in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research centers around Black women’s spirituality. She identifies as an artist-scholar who shows up curious, learning & unlearning in community.
website: courtneyariel.com
SEBASTIAN LEVAR SPIVEY (MDIV '22)
Sebastian Levar Spivey was a 2022 M.Div. VDS Graduate. Their M.Div. Thesis was recently published in Mortality and they also were recently commissioned to do some illustrations for this project.
Featured Artwork: (counterclockwise from top left): Leviathan (woodcut, 2020); spread from Untitled (Uncanny) (2019, cyanotype, etching, dry point handbound book); page from Larkspur Coloring Book (2022, ink on paper); Viewing Party Between Heaven and Earth (woodcut, 2021)
Learn more at https://www.earthlingdeathcult.art/
JOELLE M. ANTSON (M.T.S. '21)
JMA (Joelle Marcelle Antson, she/her) is a spoken word artist, a somatic coach and bodyworker, and a developer of restorative justice in the Estonian Ministry of Justice. She combines her experiential knowledge of somatics, as well as her passion for social and restorative justice to produce soundtracks of hope, healing, and transformation. JMA has been working on new music since coming out as a transgender woman in the fall of 2024. Below is some of her pre-transition work.